I know that one of my top five remains so today: kottke.org. Others are less active than they were so they're off the radar. I used to read salon.com daily and now rarely visit.

About ten years ago, we debuted a new TDP design (I had been on board for about two months) that ushered in a new message board, but it was still a couple years before Forum, as it is today more or less, was born.

I used to spend a lot of time at some laserdisc forums/websites/newsgroups. Otherwise, mostly eBay. This year marks the 10 year anniversary of my web business, back when it was a tiny notepad file my cousin hosted for free.

It was before the porn became so prominent on his site. If you clicked on a link that promised nudity, you were as likely to end up staring at some horrific tumorous growth, or goatse, as anything else.

Back then, his site used to go offline now and then due to not being able to pay the bills for traffic etc. Then he started adding porn ads, and from that point it was online all the time.